Dev Chat Highlights, July 23: Tunnel Rat and the Visual Effects of New Powersets

Reiska · 07-27-2011 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Xanatos

CoH's account numbers may have been that a couple years ago. They're no way near that now. There's a reason they're changing their financial model.

It doesn't have anything to do with the playerbase shrinking at a much further accelerated rate than we have known it to steadily decrease; NCsoft would just shut the game down if that were the case, like they have with other MMOs showing that pattern. NCsoft doesn't historically throw resources at 'dying games' in a last ditch effort to save them - they just shut them down. Especially not over a year's worth of resources (which is how long the devs have been working on Freedom behind the scenes)

So it's a reasonable guess that CoH is not, in fact, dying, and that its subscriber base is still reasonably close to that 100,000 figure on either side. (Granted, of course, a sizable portion of that is people with multiple accounts I'm sure...)

Zombie Man · 07-27-2011 02:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Gangrel_EU

But that then contradicts what the slide says.

They've mentioned errors on some of the slides and changes made since the initial slides were made.

In all their other verbal and written information, the 29 Token limit never came up.

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Sapphire7 · 07-31-2011 10:38 AM

Did I read that correctly? 10 costume slots?

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! <3

bAss_ackwards · 07-31-2011 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Sapphire7

Did I read that correctly? 10 costume slots?

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! <3

I am going to have to make SO many new outfits for my characters.

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Sapphire7 · 07-31-2011 02:08 PM

Some of my characters (especially my namesake in my sig) already have many more than five costumes, so the ability to save costumes to my hard drive has been a godsend. It just means extra trips to the tailor to switch costumes out from time to time. In fact I have some toons who have zero costume tokens left, not even vet costume tokens (and I am a 7-year vet). I spend a lot of time in the costume creator. So having 10 costumes per toon (again assuming I read that correctly) is just... MADE OF AWESOMESAUCE.